Quotes About Spending

Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companies for staff and technologies dedicated to monitoring users and censoring any infringing material from being posted or transmitted.

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.

Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.

Play, as a consumers' good, is subject to the law of marginal utility, as are all goods, and the time spent in play will be balanced against the utility to be derived from other obtainable goods.

Consumers may put off buying a car, but they don't put off buying a vacation.

One valuable lesson I learned is that buying cheap is very important. Buying without debt is also very important. Leverage is your enemy.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

By putting downward pressure on interest rates, the Fed is trying to make financial conditions more accommodative - supporting asset values and lower borrowing costs for households and businesses and thus encouraging the spending that spurs job creation and a stronger recovery.

Research has shown that 63 percent of Americans will pay as much as 36 percent more to patronize a business that is environmentally friendly.

I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do and adults don't do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.

so true it is that pleasure does not depend on extravagance, and that joy is as readily purchased by pence as pounds.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

In Afghanistan, the viceroy approach would reduce rampant fraud by focusing spending on initiatives that further the central strategy, rather than handing cash to every outstretched hand from a U.S. system bereft of institutional memory.

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.

Shopping stresses me out.